Mary Oliver
The wind wags its many tails. And in the evening the piled firewood shifts a little, longing to be on its way. —Mary Oliver
March 30, 2007
Edgartown Voters to Confront Increases in School Spending
Edgartown Voters to Confront Increases in School Spending
By MIKE SECCOMBE
Edgartown residents will be presented with a proposed operating budget increase of some 5.4 per cent, and ballot questions costing a total of about $3.9 million at the April 10 town meeting.
Total expenditures for the pending fiscal…
Hands On: John Maloney Hones Poetry, Island Stones
Chilmark poet and stonemason John Maloney can understand why some people might wrongly think one job is a metaphor for the other.
“I know, it seems a perfect metaphor – fitting words, fitting stone,” he acknowledged. “But that’s not really the way it works.”
Land Bank Acquires Beachfront Properties, Inland Sheep Pasture
Land Bank Acquires Beachfront Properties, Inland Sheep Pasture
By IAN FEIN
The Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank this week announced a series of conservation acquisitions that will expand the size of two of its existing up-Island preserves.
Sewer Plant Proposed Close to High School
Package Plant Would Treat Growing Wastewater Flows from Existing, Proposed Facilities Along Corridor
Island officials for years have discussed creating some type of a common sewage treatment plant near the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School that would serve the growing number of Islandwide institutions locating along the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven road.
To Indifference of Oak Bluffs, Shark Tourney Issue Returns
Like an ominous dorsal fin appearing behind unsuspecting bathers set to the familiar theme music from Jaws, debate over the Boston Big Game Fishing Club Monster Shark Tournament resurfaced these past few weeks just as the countdown to the summer season began in earnest.
Town, Tribe Sign Historic Land Use Pact
Town, Tribe Sign Historic Land Use Pact
By IAN FEIN
At a characteristically informal event that was more potluck dinner than Yalta Conference, town and tribe officials in Aquinnah this week signed the intergovernmental land use agreement approved by town meeting voters earlier this month.
About a dozen members…
West Tisbury Will Consider Secession from School District
An in-depth study by an independent consultant says that it would cost West Tisbury more money to operate its elementary school independently than remain part of the Up-Island Regional School District.
The West Tisbury finance committee believes otherwise – which is why at the April 10 annual town meeting, voters will find an…
